It is in California, according to Stephanie Barrett of the state's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. "If you're not a student getting [academic] credit, you're not a true intern," she tells SF Weekly. "You're an employee and you should be paid like one." The unpaid internship has become standard practice in California, with SF Weekly reporting that San Francisco, 7x7, Diablo, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian all use them, with other publications like Dwell, Benefit and Yoga Journal offering below-minimum-wage stipends. The Bay Guardian's Editor and Publisher Bruce Brugmann denies his paper is violating labor law, saying it conforms to labor standards as interpreted by the California Newspaper Publishers Association -- and that it is helping budding writers to boot. "We're helping young people by giving them vocational training from expert editors and reporters," he says. "It's a wonderful opportunity for them."
Lauren Fox's debut novel, Still Life With Husband, follows Emily Ross, "an editor at a medical journal who married solid citizen Kevin right out of college," according to the Daily News. She soon meets alt-weekly staffer David Keller, and quickly begins an affair with the writer and editor. "File this adroit but placid debut under chick lit for early marrieds -- the ones who are not sure they want to be on the baby-house-'burbs track," Publishers Weekly writes.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-AZ, has informed colleagues that he may introduce an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, to criminalize the communication or publication of any classified information "concerning efforts by the United States to identify, investigate, or prevent terrorist activity" and expand the penalty to 20 years in prison. The amendment, which Kyl has said he plans to introduce tomorrow in a Judiciary Committee markup of an unrelated bill, would give the government tremendous power to silence critics and to limit the debate and discussion on the techniques it elects to use in the "war on terror." AAN encourages members in states with a Judiciary Committee member to call their senator and urge them to oppose Kyl's measure. The Sunshine in Government Initiative, an open-government coalition of which AAN is a member, is circulating discussion points (PDF file) regarding the proposal.
Lance Gould, a veteran New York journalist, will begin his tenure in Boston in late April. Gould, formerly an editor at New York's Daily News and Spy magazine, was most recently a contributing editor at Radar magazine. He replaces Bill Jensen, who left the Phoenix to become director of online operations for Village Voice Media. Executive Editor Peter Kadzis says of Gould: "His recent work at Radar, where a premium was placed on the interdependence of print and online, will serve him particularly well at the Phoenix as we continue to work toward maximizing the convergence of our print, online, and radio content."
In a blistering investigation, Editor Julie Lyons, aka "Bible Girl," dives into Fort Worth Pastor Sherman Allen's decades-long history of alleged sexual abuse. She reports that since late January, when local TV station KXAS broke the story of a lawsuit against Allen by former church member and employee Davina Kelly, seven other women have come forward with tales of paddling and degradation at the hands of the Pentecostal pastor. The victims have also told her that Allen "is involved in the occult, employing such tactics as hypnosis, magic or illusions and the use of healing potions." GetReligion, a blog covering religion in journalism, says: "Lyons is an articulate, opinionated evangelical Christian who is doing some of the most freewheeling, confessional first-person religion writing I have ever seen."
Just as the "hits" metric became outdated as web use evolved, the page view may be on the road to obsolescence, according to E&P. As an example, the story looks at Ajax, software used by Yahoo and others that is "enabling flashier, more convenient sites," but also is "contributing to Yahoo's decline in page views." While experts quoted by E&P say that an attachment to page views may hurt a site's usability, representatives from measurement companies say they are sticking with page views, while developing supplemental metrics for interaction and brand loyalty. "People kind of cling to it, even if they know it's flawed," says comScore's Gregory Dale. "They want to see this familiar metric."
ESPN.com, FoxNews.com, and all of Cox Newspapers' sites are among the large media sites migrating from the two online giants to Quigo Technologies for contextual text ads, the small sponsored links that run next to related articles, the New York Times reports. The main reason, according to the Times, is that Quigo offers "transparency and control" by giving advertisers a list of sites where their ads have appeared and the option to buy only on specific sites. Google seems to be taking the competition seriously. A company spokesperson tells the Times that they will soon begin providing similar information to their clients.
A new study done by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia analyzes financial data from papers with a circulation of 85,000 or less and finds that "news quality most directly affects the bottom line," according to DM News, which covers direct and internet marketing. The study will be published in April's Journal of Marketing.
In today's citywide election, the Chicago Reader will "try a little experiment in citizen journalism" and have readers send in dispatches from the polls as election day unfolds, E&P reports. On Clout City, the paper's politics blog, Executive Editor Mike Lenehan tells readers: "Keep your eyes and ears open, ask questions if you need to, carry your camera or picture phone, and e-mail your anecdotes and photos." The best of this user-generated content will be posted on Clout City, along with reports from the Reader's regular bloggers. While Lenehan promises that editors "will be manning the inbox...until 8 pm at least, longer if it gets interesting," E&P says the biggest race will likely be a snoozer. "Mayor Richard M. Daley looks to be a shoo-in," E&P writes, before noting there are a few "spirited aldermanic elections" to watch.
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